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George Brandis is all loved up about literature. He self-describes as “Minister for Books”; he values his humble arts degree over his law colours; he was impressively unapologetic about his A$13,100 splurge of public money on a professional library and...

The challenge for African writers, the Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o famously asserted half a century ago, is a challenge of language; if violence was the weapon of physical subjugation, then language was the weapon of spiritual subjugation. Alongside...

The Cork International Poetry Festival (10-13 February) kicks off the Irish literary calendar for the year and the poetry aficionados of Ireland and beyond will descend on the city to witness some of the most exciting voices in the world of poetry. ...

Author Jane Mitchell Jane Mitchell is the runner up for the Jane Yolen Mid-List Author Award. I caught up with Jane to find out more... Lee: Congratulations! Tell us about finding out you were chosen as the runner-up for the Jane Yolen Mid-List Author...

Rosanna Cooney gives her thoughts on the Creative Writing organisation Fighting Words, and insists on using that confusing headline. It is a rousing blend of WWII rhetoric and literary activism that captions both this article and the entrance of Fighting...